The Kingdom of This World

  • New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957
By Alejo Carpentier; Harriet de Onis [trans.]
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. Very Good/Very Good-. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's decorative boards in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($3.00); [8],150pp. Dust jacket and boards rubbed at margins, jacket spine panel toned and quite brittle with extensive tape repair to verso, ownership signature to front free endpaper; About Very Good, internally clean and sound.

The Cuban author's novel of the Haitian Revolution and its aftermath as seen through the eyes of the protagonist, an enslaved Haitian named Ti Noel.

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